Plot

Tagline: Justice needs a new program

Programmer Dr. Darrel Lindenmeyer of the Law
Enforcement Technology Advancement Centre (LETAC) developed SID
version 6.7: a Sadistic, Intelligent, and Dangerous virtual
reality entity amalgamation of 183 notorious criminal
personalities: mass
murderers, serial
killers, and megalomaniacs. Programmed
using genetic
algorithms, each of the 183 killers in SID holds the memories,
personality/behavioral traits, and emotional composition as the
original. Being far too complex to design, Lindenmeyer had SID's
program begin with him as a child (sped up in virtual reality),
having the killers in his subconscious raise him and guide him in
the ways of the world. The killers emerge through the 50 terabyte, self-evolving
neural
network that is SID through a sort of
Multiple Personality Disorder, giving way to the stronger
personalities depending on each situation.

LETAC would like to train police officers by
putting them in full-sensory simulation VR with SID, the idea being
that if the cops in the virtual reality simulator could catch him,
they could catch anyone. First they must prove the concept works,
which they decide to do using prisoners as test subjects. While two
of the prisoners were inside virtual reality, SID, having the
accumulated knowledge of 183 madmen, had figured out how to raise
the neural sensitivity calibrations in the VR program, causing the
pain being received to be more lethal than real-life. SID killed
one of the two prisoner-turned-temporary-police officers by torture
through electrocution
- a technique not available as one of his programmed methods of
killing. The aftermath left the prisoner/contestant dead of severe,
concentrated seizures to the major pain
receptors of the brain. The other participant, who was taken
out of VR before SID finished him off, was left temporarily
traumatized.

Witnessing the catastrophe, Commissioner
Elizabeth Deane, the director overseeing the SID project, ordered
to have it shut down. Later, Lindenmeyer gravely told his
'masterpiece' his fate. SID, in turn, told Lindenmeyer an
alternative: Tricking Clyde Reilly, a befriended coworker at LETAC,
into turning SID's persona into a regenerating android (better
known as a 'nanotech synthetic organism'), by making him think he
was actually downloading the persona and form of a sexy virtual
prostitute. Less than
30 seconds after the ultimate madman was released into our world,
Reilly became SID's first victim. Now in the real world, he is free
of all behavioral limits he had in virtual reality, gaining the
ability to now grow on his own - rewriting and improving his own
programming.